Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-05

There aoas q right and 9 wrong to the
war OF The rebellion. One side meant =
government Of rich men. Of slavery, Of
an ~eiistocracy.
y hat was q crime.
The other side meant o government Of
all men but especially OF and by and for
pot governments Of freedom and OF
equal rights for every man.
This was right.
1t was the nearest approach yet made
II the sphere OF government, to the law
Of Christ.
One side meant contempt for labor, and
b wish and purpose to enslave il
whether white or black.
That was o crime, black as He'll.
The other side meant the erowning OF
labor with the hiRheat crown OF political
power, and the gradual lifting up from
~, OF the inequalities and distinctions,
U determinations still weighing it
down.
This was right, and was one OF the
ioftiest causes that ever engaged The at
tention of men.
One eide meant a complete deBtruc-
ton OF all Government for the people;
OF ell projections for human liberty: Of ali
progress and advancement.
This was q crime against humanity.
Tho other side mesnt o "New birth OF
Freedom for the Nation, end O Govern
q q the People, by the People and
itr tbs People
/ Is was right.
One side meant an irnperious Southern
Slave Empire, and q divided country In
the North with Its trade and commerce
killed BY foreign tariffs; its people
crushed by taxes.
Its lands desolated by wars; and ell
the rights Of its people ground into the
dust.
That was q crime.
The Rebel Flag was the symbol OF
that crime.
The Union Flag was the symbol of
this Right.
10 send back the Rebel Flags, to the
.ssContederAte States, 'as President Cleye-
land sty les them i'll his letter, was to say
sin effect that IN was no more right than
the other; and that the war was simply
A stsnggle Tor power between two sec
stionH.
Worse then this it was q deliberate
Conquered Conspiracy against human
liberty Tor Southern votes.
MIR. Cleveland's recall of the order
does, not mend matters for the Northern
Union man who could have the PROPOSE
ton e stated to him,let alone die
cussed and considered, as, he confessed in
his letter was done without at once aee-
ing end revolving at its meaning ia either
too stolid and indiff erent to understand
or too selfehiy ambitious 20 rebnke it.
Like many another small thing, this
apparently trivial matter was a tremen-
dous revelation OF his entire character
and motives on the part Of Mr.. Cleveland
to- the American People which was the
more significant as il was plainly unin-
tentionaI.
THE NEW PEOPLE.
This nation seems to have been plant.
ed upon q continent; with o field and
scope heretofore granted to no nation in
history, for the purpose of gathering TO
itself the flower and fruitage OF oil
races, OF all ages. Of all thought, and Of
all civilization.
a,he resultant is to be . grand raoe,
combining the exceilencIes and highest
qualities, and ripest experiences, and
deepest knowledge OF all.
On q grand scale the old, old expert
ment. which has been repeated over snd
over, from the ancient civilization OF
Accad, whose buried literature has just
been exhumed from the earth, to that of
Egypt, and from Egypt through each OF
the successive great Nations, down to
the English. There is this difference,
that here the theater OF the experiment
il q continent, and not o small ridge,
peninsula or island.
Here, it is to be an experiment OF the.
union OF the ruling races OF the world,
and not Of the few local tribes.
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